It was filled in with stone sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, after cattle and other livestock kept falling into it. What remains is a scatter of stones and a solitary thorn tree, the kind of quiet, unremarkable arrangement that could easily be walked past without a second thought.

The well was marked by name on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, one of the most detailed cartographic exercises ever carried out in Ireland at that time, which gives it a documented presence of at least two centuries. The name it carried then, Doyle's Well, was presumably that of a local family or landowner, though no further detail on that connection has been recorded. What is notable is what the well apparently lacked: according to the landowner, there was never any local tradition of it being a holy well. In Ireland, many old wells acquired religious or devotional associations over the centuries, becoming sites of pattern days or pilgrimages. Doyle's Well seems to have been simply a well, functional and unremarkable in that sense, until the practical decision was made to close it off for the safety of the animals grazing around it.